Swedish Flower Hen Thread

[KYTinpusher]

Hi.

I looked through the first few pages to find out what color egg the Swedish Flower hens lay. There is a photo of the first one but I'm not sure if it's white or lightly tinted.

Would someone please post the color of their egg. Thank you!

They vary from a very light cream to a light brown. the pic is a little washed out colorwise, but the egg on the left is a white dummy egg; the egg on the right is a Barred Rock egg; all six in the middle are SFH eggs.

 

[hannakat]

Thank you KYTinpusher

 

[allsummedup]

Too bad you don't live closer... we could trade! Here is the pair I have to offer: This girl I hatched from my eggs. DD named her Cheese.

And this boy hatched from BHep's eggs. DS named him Cracker.

BTW, I have an auction up for eggs here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/754060/the-new-crazy-24hr-auction-thread/1260#post_11062275

I would love that pair! Any chance you wanna ship to Alaska.

 

[Bernie56]

All my babies look to be doing well! Yay!

There is one I must get a photo of. It came from GF. Red head, blue back. So pretty. I can't wait to see how that one looks as an adult.

Most of my red/white girls started out like that. Is it mostly yellow, with a red head, and smokey grey/blue back?

 

[SunnySkies]

Yes, blue back, red head, yellow body. I'd love to have a red/white one. So that makes me happy.

Took the new GF babies outside before the rain came in. Adorable. I haven't uploaded photos to Photobucket yet though.

You know that barred buff Cochin roo standing with the babies belonging to the broody hens in my photos? Well, I looked in on them before closing the coop last night, and a chick was standing on his back! I of course had no camera ( it was sprinkling anyway...not taking the camera out in the rain!). But that guy may have a home here for life after seeing that...

 

[chiques chicks]

Sunny, I only have one hen with one rooster, but eggs have been hatching well. Is this the color you are looking for? I can hatch some if you'd like in hopes you get a pulley the right color. I have 6 hatching right now, plus 6 in staggered hatches over the next two weeks. PM me if interested. I'm about an hour north of the Maryland line north of Baltimore.

 

[SunnySkies]

Yes, that is one color I'm looking for. I have a lot of chicks that may turn out that way, but if they don't, I know who to contact now

My mean roo was red like that. I loved his beautiful color. Probably why I didn't kill him at the first sign of aggression.

 

[Bulldogma]

Hatched 4 adorable chicks yesterday. Dang hatcher was having some major humidity issues - I think it was due to the rain we're having. It had been consistent for days on end, and then right when the eggs go into lockdown, it goes up into the 60's... all of them had sticky gunk all over them and I had to help 2 out of the shell... one poor little thing was running around in the hatcher with the fat end of the shell adhered to its head like a helmet! It was really funny, actually... but of course the issues caused a lousy hatch.


I LOVE this little one - the light isn't good in the picture so it's hard to see that it is a silver-blue with a light orangy-red head and yellow belly. One of Elinor's babies - she's my splash hen.




Due to the humidity issues, this one had badly curled feet, so I stuck tape on them. They had straightened out in just a few hours, thankfully. It still sits back on its hocks a lot, but it does get upright and walk around just fine.


"Is that a worm?"

 

[texasmomma]

I had a swedish flower hen with curled toes. I used tape to fix them and he seemed find until he hit puberty. They curled again. He never could roost properly after that.

 

[OldChurchEggery1]

Those are so cute! They look suspiciously similar to the ones I hatched

I forgot to put in the update that all 9 that pipped hatched. Three are definitely blue and one is either a very dark blue or in fact black. They are happily zipping around out in the brooder. The shipment I got from Green Fire had a couple of the yellow-downed chicks and one that is a very pale grey all over. One of the yellow-downed chicks is getting white feathers and the other has wing feathers that have a peach-like tint to them. If it weren't rainy and cold today I'd take them out to pose for some pictures. Maybe I'll bring them inside for an impromptu photo shoot!